REST Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Representational State Transfer (REST)
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring REST skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 71 52
Rank change year-on-year +15 -19 +14
Permanent jobs citing REST 11 4 9
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 1.35% 0.59% 1.71%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.17% 2.37% 9.38%
Number of salaries quoted 10 3 9
10th Percentile - £44,290 £41,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,369 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile - £63,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £57,875 £67,500 £61,000
North East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +22.22%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Tyne and Wear

REST falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Tyne and Wear.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 120 169 96
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 14.72% 24.85% 18.29%
Number of salaries quoted 108 80 89
10th Percentile £28,250 £41,925 £38,407
25th Percentile £31,750 £45,938 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £69,063 £80,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £74,375 £95,000 £70,000
North East median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -4.55%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing REST relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

REST job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

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Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing REST.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing REST

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Salary Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution for jobs citing REST in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for REST in Tyne and Wear

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Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Sunderland - 9 £55,000 - 2
Newcastle upon Tyne -2 2 £82,500 +50.00% 14
REST
North East

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 9 (81.82%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Redis
2 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (81.82%) Games
2 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Developer
2 7 (63.64%) AWS Developer
2 7 (63.64%) C# Developer
2 7 (63.64%) Full-Stack C# Developer
2 7 (63.64%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Software Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) AWS Software Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) C# Software Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Intapp Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Lead
5 1 (9.09%) Lead Software Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) .NET
1 4 (36.36%) AngularJS
1 4 (36.36%) React
1 4 (36.36%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Client/Server
2 1 (9.09%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Full-Stack Development
2 5 (45.45%) Agile
3 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (27.27%) Software Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) DevOps
5 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (9.09%) AI
6 1 (9.09%) Analytics
6 1 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
6 1 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
6 1 (9.09%) ETL
6 1 (9.09%) Mentoring
6 1 (9.09%) Prototyping
6 1 (9.09%) Release Management
6 1 (9.09%) Secure Coding
6 1 (9.09%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) C#
1 9 (81.82%) TypeScript
2 6 (54.55%) SQL
3 5 (45.45%) JavaScript
4 2 (18.18%) Python
5 1 (9.09%) Java
5 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Intapp
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft